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On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:17:07 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> >> Ok... so... the question remains - can I tell cron to send mail the |
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> >> same way? |
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> > You don't, cron sends mail via sendmail, to the recipient specified by |
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> > the MAILTO variable in the crontab file. |
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> Thanks Neil, but... you said 'You don't'... not 'You CAN'T'... |
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> Can you elaborate on this? If this is not possible - why is it not |
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> possible? In other words, if portage can do it, why can't cron? |
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Well, it's possible, you just patch cron to add SMTP code so that it can |
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send mail itself, rather than using the unix standard approach of doing |
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its own job and passing other tasks onto programs designed for those jobs. |
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Cron runs cron jobs, sendmail sends mail. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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A real programmer never documents his code. |
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It was hard to make, it should be hard to read |
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